I'm seriously considering getting one as a weekend toy. In a nice Red or Blue.
With Track Pack, it's £33,500. Which for what it is, is an absolute bargain. I only hope this then pushes Ford, VW, Audi etc to follow suit. Audi RS1, Polo R, Fiesta RS. Brilliant.
With Track Pack, it's £33,500. Which for what it is, is an absolute bargain. I only hope this then pushes Ford, VW, Audi etc to follow suit. Audi RS1, Polo R, Fiesta RS. Brilliant.
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Some dealers taking deposits apparently. Not expected to arrive until end of this year / start of next.
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Meant not to be a limited run either. So won't get carried along with begging a dealer to take my money. Will look at one next year. Self employed, so need some work coming in (quite time at minute) before committing
Yeah, but not the fully blown 260bhp version, so I'm lead to believe. Lower powered cars will be offered in Japan. Probably only FWD too.
On basic price, is it though....?
For me it is simply to much money for what is a small car, then you have to try and justify to people why it costs so much.
I think the type of people who would get excited about this Yaris GR will be fans of Renault Sport cars. I am honestly not having a go at you by saying this @wab172uk.
It is genuinely what I think, and you just happen to be posting in this thread and already expressed a significant interest in it. I don't know maybe it is an age thing....but I just cant be bothered with these type of cars anymore.
On basic price, is it though....?
For me it is simply to much money for what is a small car, then you have to try and justify to people why it costs so much.
I think the type of people who would get excited about this Yaris GR will be fans of Renault Sport cars. I am honestly not having a go at you by saying this @wab172uk.
I don't know maybe it is an age thing....but I just cant be bothered with these type of cars anymore.
It is expensive for such a small car. But it won't come off the Yaris production line. It's a bespoke built car, with unique bodywork that houses some seriously wide track and a sophisticated AWD system. Then add upgraded brakes, suspension, seats etc. Then if you tick the Track Pack, you get front and rear Diffs.
At £33,500 (track pack) I suspect Toyota will probably be making a loss on each one they make. So as a rally car for the road, nothing else comes close. It will be interesting to see how many of the track pack versions you can buy, compared to the lesser cars to make up the 25,000 units they need to shift.
If you think about rally reps of old. Impreza P1, 22B, S201-209 range. Mitsubishi Evo's TM Edition, Celica GT4's, Escort Cosworth's etc. What else has there been since? Nothing. So this Yaris may well be a much sort after car in the future.
If I did decide to buy one, it'd be a weekend toy only, and a very long termer. As I doubt anything like this will ever be built again.
But we each think differently, and as an every day car that needs to carry the family around, and to the shopping run every week, then it's not the car that would suit most. It wouldn't suit me.
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